Recipie to Christmas Chocolate Log Cake by Prima Flour

One can never truly feel the Christmas spirit when Christmas presents, Christmas Turkey, Eggnott and a Christmas Log Cake is missing at a Christmas Dinner Party. A good Christmas log cake makes Christmas more enjoyable and more memorable too!

We made a Christmas Log Cake at Allspice using Prima Flour and it was very delicious and moist! Here’s the recipe to share the love!

INGREDIENTS

Ingredients A

3 nos Egg

3 nos Egg Yolk

150g Sugar

1 tbsp Vanilla Extract

Ingredients B

70g Prima Cake Flour 12g Cocoa Powder

Ingredients C

4 nos Egg White 30g Icing Sugar

Pastry Cream

200ml Milk

2 nos Egg Yolk 50g Sugar

18g Corn Starch 25g Butter

Chocolate Cream

300g Dark Chocolate 75ml Water

4 nos Egg Yolk

30g Sugar

4 nos Egg White 60g Sugar

200g Heavy Cream

INSTRUCTIONS

Chocolate Sponge Cake

1. In a mixing bowl, whip Ingredient A until thick ribbon stage. Set aside egg mixture.
2. Sift Ingredient B and fold it into the egg mixture. Set aside flour batter.
3. In another mixing bowl, whip Ingredient C to medium soft peak. Whipped egg white is ready.
4. Fold whipped egg white into the flour batter.
5. Pour the batter into a lined baking tray and bake at
6. 200o C for 10 – 13 minutes.
7. Once baked, turn the sponge cake onto another baking sheet and roll up before it cools.

Pastry Cream

1. Heat milk and 1⁄2 a portion of the sugar in a pot.
2. Meanwhile, mix egg yolk, sugar and cornstarch. Set aside egg yolk mixture.
3. Bring the milk to a simmer and pour 1⁄2 of it into the egg yolk mixture. Then pour the mixture back into the pot and boil for another 2 minutes.
4. Once the mixture thickens, pour it into a bowl and fold in butter.

1. Unroll the sponge cake and apply the pastry cream. Roll up sponge cake.

Chocolate Cream

1. Melt dark chocolate and water over a double boiler or microwave. Set aside melted chocolate.
2. Whip egg yolk and 30g sugar until thick ribbon stage.
3. Fold in melted chocolate. Set aside chocolate mixture.
4. Beat egg white and 60g sugar until soft peak and fold into chocolate mixture. Set aside mixture.
5. Whip heavy cream and fold into mixture.
6. Decorate with chocolate cream as desired.